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As a follow-up on my post about The Myths of Reading Aloud, I draw your attention to one explanation Dubya gave for why the Republicans lost so badly on Tuesday (as reported by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post):
President Bush had many explanations for what he called the “thumping” his party took on Tuesday, but the most creative was the notion that his chief strategist, Karl Rove, had spent too much time reading books.
“I obviously was working harder on the campaign than he was,” the president said at yesterday’s East Room news conference. The reporters laughed. The Architect, who had challenged Bush to a reading contest, wore a sheepish grin and stared at his lap.
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This from Meredith Sue Willis:
William Styron died November 1, 2006. He is one of the last of the generation of what I think of as Heroic Novelists. …His work has the enviable seriousness of one who truly believes that novels are the most serious form of art and that art is the most serious form of human endeavor. The ones left living include, probably most notably, Phillip Roth, ten years younger than Styron, who was old enough to be a marine in World War II.
When I speak of these Heroic Novelists, I speak of the ones who saw writing as a great proving ground for Men: books were serious, being a novelist was heroic, being a novelist thus was real men’s work.
My life was changed just a bit, if not transformed, by The Confessions of Nat Turner. Sophie’s Choice touched me, made me cry, but didn’t actually change my thinking. The world is sadder for his loss. But, like Meredith Sue, I identify more with Jane Austin.
Read the rest of Meredith Sue’s post here.
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The Kentucky Book Fair
Saturday November 11th
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Frankfort Convention Center
More than 200 national, regional, and local authors will be there. The fair is free and open to the public. Plus, all book purchases are discounted 10%! Note: Some of the special events do require a fee and reservations are required. Please see for more information.
Download a catalogue here (PDF).
Profit from the Ky Book Fair goes mostly to school and public libraries throughout Kentucky.
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